Hits Different

All the Mets are getting married! We should rename them the New York Bridegrooms ! We're back after another horrible experience with a technology gremlin who crazily and unfairly entered our devices and ruined an episode of the show during which we discussed Brett Baty's engagement for upwards of 10 minutes. This week we're talking about the looming trade deadline, but not in the way where guys wh...

I don't think this episode title is click-bait at all, actually. Actually!! This week on Hits Different, we're recording at a super random hour because of our travel schedules. Sorry! Because of the timing, we're recapping the Subway Series and the first game of Mets vs. Orioles, which I assume is the only one you want to hear about anyway. PLEASE stick around for the entire episode even if you ar...

This week on Hits Different, we're alone in the studio without David or Producer Nathan and we're not very well-prepared to speak about another bizarre week of New York Mets baseball. Sorry! We've been busy and it hasn't been nice. We recorded this episode on the morning of the Fourth of July and therefore without the knowledge of Jeff McNeil's late-inning heroics. More on that next time! Instead,...

The Mets simply will not stop losing, and nobody knows who is to blame. Is it David and Ellen, for assuring Kaitlyn that Kodai Senga's injury was only sad and unfortunate and not the literal end of the world? Is it Brandon Nimmo, for wearing a Jesus T-shirt on Pride Night in an act of weirdness that may have jostled free an ancient curse? Is it God? Does God hate the Mets? Well, we couldn't answer...

This week on Hits Different, we addressed a sick and twisted mailbag question we received: What's your pettiest baseball grudge? I had so much fun contemplating this even after we stopped recording that I wanted to pose it to the millions of listeners of New York's only anti-math baseball podcast. Which players or fans or stadiums or whatever do you dislike IRRATIONALLY and what are your most firm...

Sorry this episode is so late!!! Producer Nathan and I were in the Hudson Valley at the wedding of the century eating Jake's Gouda (look it up). And then we were busy and forgot. Sorry!! This week on Hits Different, we're talking about the Mets splitting a series against the Dodgers which they could have swept, not to be one of those guys. I hate when baseball fans (Yankees fans) are all over soci...

Of course, everyone is saying that it's classic Mets behavior to nearly sweep the Los Angeles Dodgers and then achieve just two narrow victories and one pretty appalling loss against the world-historically bad Chicago White Sox. We're not really of that opinion—we think it's classic Mets behavior to be SO cute and fun—but things do seem a little weird. I hope you're okay with listening to three pe...

We're back after a one-week forced hiatus—for some reason THEY did not want our episode about Brett Baty's huge week against the Chicago Cubs and Pittsburgh Pirates to reach the airwaves and so THEY destroyed the audio files after recording. Unfortunately there's nothing THEY can do, because this week we're talking about Brett Bonds Baty saving the Mets' season once again!!!! BB7 Brett the Met is...

This week on Hits Different, we're recapping yet another 3-3 road trip for the New York Mets. Two of the three wins, of course, came after Brett Baty rejoined the team in Arizona. Nobody knows why, but it's the truth: They can't win without him. Brett is becoming a meme on Mets Twitter, which is another way in which he is very similar to Juan Soto, who was diagnosed as non-binary and autistic by a...

Apologies for the profound delay in uploading this episode—Producer Nathan was out of the state over the weekend doing something really important. Producer's Assistant Kaitlyn was in the heart of darkness (Philadelphia) attending a wedding and worrying over whether Brett Baty would be traded. He was disappeared for about four days. The girls online hunted him like a sasquatch . This episode was re...

Let's get this out of the way: Yes, the Mets spoiled their perfect week at home by telling Brett Baty—the very same who hit a two-run home run off of perennial Cy Young favorite Zach Wheeler, the only reason that the Mets were able to walk off the Phillies and complete the sweep—to get lost back to Syracuse. This decision was reported on David's birthday, which in my opinion was fucking insane. We...

Please note this podcast episode was recorded early in the day on THURSDAY APRIL 17 and we had no idea what was coming (Brett Baty five-game hit streak, Keith saying "cue the music," Francisco Lindor first-ever walk-off homerun as a New York Met ahahahahahahaha). If you're still willing to think about last week's hugely mid and chilly road trip, have we got a show for you. The Mets had another 3-3...

This week on Hits Different, we're processing a glorious 5-1 home stand in which it was way too chilly and Jesse Winker's hair looked way too good. We're also talking about the schism dividing the Mets fandom—is it okay to boo Brett Baty, a 25-year-old who never did anything to you and tries really hard? On mic, we forgot to address the actual insanity of Brett choosing "Glory Days"—a song about b...

WINTER IS OVER IF YOU WANT IT As ever, we return to the question, "How many people can Pete Alonso carry out of a burning building?" NOW WE KNOW. The answer is: "At least 25 full-grown, professional athlete-sized men." PETE has the Mets on his back, yet they do not seem to be wearing heavy on him. In fact, he loves it!!! And so do we here at Hits Different. In this week's episode, we're talking ab...

This week on Hits Different: David, Ellen, and Kaitlyn prepare for the 2025 MLB season by talking about almost everything else they can think of for 90 minutes! Almost certainly the words "Dakota Fanning" are uttered more times than the words "New York Mets." Sorry! We're not going to examine this too closely. We're nervous, but definitely not about Brett Baty. We're anxious, but not because AJ Mi...

PEEEEEEEEEEETE Pete Alonso is a New York Met again. Thank you Pete Alonso! No "thank you" to anyone else involved—you have immiserated us for months on end. Ellen, David, and Kait are back on the mic after a long and mentally perilous winter. We're talking about the insurrection at Citi Field otherwise known as "Amazin' Day" and we're talking about PEEEEEEEEEETE. Let's go Mets and please send us y...

This week on Hits Different, Ellen and Kaitlyn are talking about the next 15 years of their lives. Juan Soto is going to be part of our households. We'll be middle-aged when Juan Soto retires from being a Met. Ellen's son Bobby will be driving a car! Dave is away but he has the same next question as the rest of us: What about Pete? When will the Mets say "Pete—Met for life"? Where is Pete? Why is...

This week on Hits Different, we're talking about the PowerPoint presentation that's going to convince Juan Soto to sign with the Boston Red Sox and the AI-generated image of him in a Toronto Blue Jays uniform that might change his mind. Every meeting has gone "well" so far—in what way might a meeting between a person hoping to receive $600 million and a group of people hoping to give it to him go...

In our first off-season episode, we're talking about the "World Series" which was a "clash of the titans," and we're also Googling and combing the stacks at the library in search of just ONE good baseball ghost story. If you know of any, please email us!! hitsdiffpodcast@gmail.com Kaitlyn and Ellen also meticulously research the current whereabouts of the 2024 New York Mets. We miss them all the t...

We're in "don't cry because it's over" mode ... but we're crying anyway! Our cups runneth over! Some older gents in recent days have compared the 2024 Mets to the 1986 Mets and that's wrong. The 1986 Mets were bad people. Our Mets are heroes and they deserve a rest. The only sad part is we'll miss them so much. This week on Hits Different, we recap the National League Championship Series, in which...

It's Sunday morning in the greatest city in the world and the Mets have given us a little time to breathe and take in 40 different angles of every amazing thing that has happened in the past two weeks. This week on Hits Different, we are stretching our legs and cracking our knuckles and going for another nearly-two-hour pod after a week of harried emergency episodes. We're talking about Garth Broo...

Francisco Lindor says Mark "Swaggy V" Vientos is making himself famous by being incredible, to which we say: Fact check PASSED. This week on Hits Different, Ellen and Kaitlyn recap the first two games of that National League Division Series between the Philadelphia Phillies and the New York Mets. It's an interesting contrast between two fandoms—one of which regards all of this as gravy after an im...

A quick and chaotic one for posterity! Ellen calls in from a SAT phone at the Hits Different international bureau located inside of a Danish spa. We have nothing to say really except we can't believe it, but you gotta believe it. These guys are MAGIC. That rally gourd is stupid but we LOVE it. Pete rewarded the faith we had in him all year and as you may know it is not really faith if it depends o...

This is obviously the worst episode of Hits Different by far and we had no plan for it and half of it doesn't make sense. Producer Nathan had notes for us, such as, "You can’t scream into the mic like that at the end of the episode ily" and "Or if you do you have to tell me. You’re gonna blow someone’s ears out" We are so tired! We are so happy! Yesterday, we watched an INSTANT CLASSIC Mets game w...

We snuck this one in during the early hours of what may be one of the longest days of our lives!! This week on Hits Different we're talking about how close the Mets' playoffs hopes came to slipping away and how close they have come to re-snatching them back from the jaws of defeat once again. Forgive that metaphor, it's not my best!! Tylor Megill has a chance to become Mets Ty-LORE and potentially...